Beyond the violence and immediacy of his language, perhaps Marat was popular for a more straightforward reason: he ...

Self-Help from the Middle Ages raises some provocative questions about historical figures. Was Thomas Aquinas truly ...

If Joyce’s politics were hard to decipher, it was partly because he concealed his Parnellism behind something of ...

In early modern England, ‘people were surrounded by feathers all the time,’ as ‘the gentry flew their hawks, servants plucked ...

As a British wartime child living near secret things and sites, I can remember easily respecting the instruction: ...

This concept of subjecthood soon applied in England’s infant colonies, including in America, where, after the Revolution, it ...

His was the name on the front cover of Alfred Hitchcock’s Mystery Magazine, several issues of which I had recently picked up ...

Bad magic attracts bad money. Brion Gysin had a preternatural instinct for the fluctuations of the art market, ...

In M. John Harrison’s​ short story ‘The Crisis’, first published in 2017, the world has been invaded by aliens that look like ...

My friend Jawad Ali, a Palestinian American lawyer, was at his daughter’s graduation last month when he got a ...

There’s​ no sign over the door of Palantir’s UK headquarters, an eight-storey neoclassical building in Soho Square. The windows are lined with thick reflective glass. When we tried to take some ...

I n her Clarendon Lectures ​ , given at Oxford in 2023 and recently published as Poetry’s Nature (Oxford, £25.99), Susan ...